Tokyo 2020 Olympics 1,500m silver medalist Laura Muir and this winter’s Glasgow World’s Indoor 800m runner-up Jemma Reekie showed class to record Diamond League wins in Stockholm.
The Scottish long-distance runner Laura Muir celebrated success in her crown event with 3:57.99 min. She left behind Edinah Jebitok (Kenya), who improved her personal best to second in 3:58.88 min, and Georgia Griffith (Australia), who finished third in 3:59.17 min.
Laura Muir is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medalist in the 1,500m. She won the bronze medal at the 2022 World Championships, and has three other top five placings in 1,500m finals at the World Athletics Championships, finishing fifth in 2015, fourth in 2017 and fifth in 2019. She is a two-time European 1,500m champion from 2018 and 2022 as well as the 2022 Commonwealth Games 1,500m champion and 800m bronze medalist. Indoors, Laura Muir is a two-time 2018 World Indoor Championship medalist, earning silver at 1,500m and bronze at 3,000m, and a British record five-time European Indoor champion, including the 1,500m/3,000m double in 2017 and 2019 as the first athlete in history to achieve the ‘double-double’ at a European Indoor Championships. She first broke the British record in the 1,500m in July 2016. She set the current record in 2021 at the Tokyo Olympics, which ranks her in the world all-time top 15.
Meanwhile, in the women’s 800m, which was not part of tonight’s diamond events, Scottish middle-distance runner prevailed with a time of 1:57.79 min. She overtook Vivian Chebet Kiprotich (Kenya) with 1:58.64 min and Eveliina Maattanen (Finland), who bettered her personal record and took third place with 1:59.59 min.
